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Hello, happy people! This is my first time on LJ in a little over two weeks. I have barely even been on the computer in that time. I guess I'm pretty quiet on LJ, but I'm actually on the internet a lot; it's terribly addicting and it eats up so much time that could be spent doing better things. I've been a little scared to get back on the internet, fearing that I'd end up spending a couple hours looking at dumb stuff and then get back into the cycle again. It's very hard for me to control my internet usage. Anyway, I decided to go ahead and check LJ because I really missed you all. I tried to read everything I missed but LJ wouldn't let me go back quite far enough.
The day after I posted about my pregnancy the nausea started coming on. I haven't barfed very much, but I feel terribly shitty most of the time, with nausea and/or flu-like symptoms (including some massive fatigue). I am so, so tired of it all and want desperately to feel normal again. I was 9 weeks yesterday, so I guess this isn't going to end just yet.
I had an IM conversation with Jamie about this once, but otherwise I don't think I've ever mentioned that Sebastian was not talking yet. We all have been learning sign language, which has been a great way of communicating. We started seeing a speech therapist a few months ago, as well. I was unsure of how much it would help; Sebastian is really smart and progressing well in every area except speech, so I didn't think he had some major problem. At his two-year checkup, the doctor felt that since he wasn't talking yet he should be evaluated by a speech therapist. This in itself might not have made me cave in, but I also had family members that were concerned and were pushing me to get him help. (Esp. my mother, who for a while kept suggesting Sebastian might be autistic. Argh.) I have a stupid relationship with my mother where she gets all worried about something, so then I go with what she wants and then later I feel stupid about it, like she forced me into it. But Brian and I figured too that if he had some problem, we might as well get help for it now while he was still young. I honestly am still not sure if the speech therapy's doing that much; the therapist mostly just plays games with Sebastian and does little things I probably could've found out about online. Probably the best idea I got came from the evaluator I only saw once; she suggested creating a little book of pictures of things Sebastian likes to eat, play with, etc. so if he's with someone who doesn't know signs, he can look through the book and point out what he wants. Sebastian totally loves his therapist, though, which is wonderful.
Well, probably in mid-November, he started saying "this" and would use it to pick out something he wanted. He says "dees" or "dis" with a heavily ennuciated "s" at the end; it's very cute. A couple weeks later, he completely surprised me - I told him it was time to change his diaper, and he very clearly said "no." Since then he's picked up some more words - and he usually surprises us by just repeating what we're saying. He says this, no, that, stop, yes, mom and stuff. And yeah, hearing him say mom was really awesome. I think he also said "nine" one night after Brian said it. It's been cool to finally hear him talk and he gets pleasure from saying new words.
Meredith is sort of driving us nuts with her need to control everything. I don't know what else to say about that right now. Something I want to remember: how she says "exposions" instead of "episodes." She misread it that way on the back of a DVD once and now it's stuck. A few things she used to say: "werm" for "warm", "I amn't" for "I'm not" and "wiz" for "was." And she still says "free" instead of "three", but that's pretty common, I think.
The day after I posted about my pregnancy the nausea started coming on. I haven't barfed very much, but I feel terribly shitty most of the time, with nausea and/or flu-like symptoms (including some massive fatigue). I am so, so tired of it all and want desperately to feel normal again. I was 9 weeks yesterday, so I guess this isn't going to end just yet.
I had an IM conversation with Jamie about this once, but otherwise I don't think I've ever mentioned that Sebastian was not talking yet. We all have been learning sign language, which has been a great way of communicating. We started seeing a speech therapist a few months ago, as well. I was unsure of how much it would help; Sebastian is really smart and progressing well in every area except speech, so I didn't think he had some major problem. At his two-year checkup, the doctor felt that since he wasn't talking yet he should be evaluated by a speech therapist. This in itself might not have made me cave in, but I also had family members that were concerned and were pushing me to get him help. (Esp. my mother, who for a while kept suggesting Sebastian might be autistic. Argh.) I have a stupid relationship with my mother where she gets all worried about something, so then I go with what she wants and then later I feel stupid about it, like she forced me into it. But Brian and I figured too that if he had some problem, we might as well get help for it now while he was still young. I honestly am still not sure if the speech therapy's doing that much; the therapist mostly just plays games with Sebastian and does little things I probably could've found out about online. Probably the best idea I got came from the evaluator I only saw once; she suggested creating a little book of pictures of things Sebastian likes to eat, play with, etc. so if he's with someone who doesn't know signs, he can look through the book and point out what he wants. Sebastian totally loves his therapist, though, which is wonderful.
Well, probably in mid-November, he started saying "this" and would use it to pick out something he wanted. He says "dees" or "dis" with a heavily ennuciated "s" at the end; it's very cute. A couple weeks later, he completely surprised me - I told him it was time to change his diaper, and he very clearly said "no." Since then he's picked up some more words - and he usually surprises us by just repeating what we're saying. He says this, no, that, stop, yes, mom and stuff. And yeah, hearing him say mom was really awesome. I think he also said "nine" one night after Brian said it. It's been cool to finally hear him talk and he gets pleasure from saying new words.
Meredith is sort of driving us nuts with her need to control everything. I don't know what else to say about that right now. Something I want to remember: how she says "exposions" instead of "episodes." She misread it that way on the back of a DVD once and now it's stuck. A few things she used to say: "werm" for "warm", "I amn't" for "I'm not" and "wiz" for "was." And she still says "free" instead of "three", but that's pretty common, I think.